ˈpoke-ˈbonnet
[f. poke n. or v.1: see poke n.2]
Colloquial name for a bonnet with a projecting brim; spec. one of this shape worn in the early part of the 19th c. Also attrib.
| 1820 Hermit in London xcii. V. 35 Another street nuisance is your poke-bonnet ladies, who sometimes put out your eyes with these pent-house projections. 1833 T. Hook Love & Pride, Widow viii, For young women as likes to look about 'em, them poke bonnets is old nick. 1837 Lytton E. Maltrav. iv. vi, A few ladies of middle age..wear..straw poke bonnets. 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma ix, [A] lady..painted in one of the old poke bonnets of former days. 1884 Century Mag. XXVIII. 14 Eight or nine ladies, gentlemen, and children, in the poke-bonnets and high-collared coats of the year 1839. |
b. Applied to the form of bonnet worn by Quakeresses, and later to that of Salvation Army women, etc.; hence, to the wearers of such.
| 1848 Bartlett Dict. Amer., Poke-bonnet, a long, straight bonnet, much worn by Quakers and Methodists. 1862 H. Marryat Year in Sweden II. lvi. 264 We dined at a farmhouse.., the property of Anabaptists, a sect most numerous in Götland. There's no mistaking the women by their downcast looks and black poke-bonnets. 1877 Sat. Rev. 12 May 577/2 At Croydon, Dorking, and other favourite haunts of Friends, the..broad-brimmed hats for the men, and close poke-bonnets for the women, may still be seen. 1899 St. James' Gaz. 17 Aug. 11/2 Never reached by the Church,..or any other spiritual organisations, except possibly the ‘poke bonnets’ at the corners of the streets. 1902 E. Banks Newspaper Girl 107 The poke bonnet and dark blue dress, which I thought I would not get until I had spent a few days investigating what was the best way to join the Army. |
Hence poke-ˈbonneted a., wearing a poke-bonnet.
| 1877 Sat. Rev. 23 June 755/1 Marching in.., hatted or poke-bonneted, and silent, when it [a religious observance] is Quaker. 1901 Daily Chron. 16 Nov. 3/2 The poke-bonnetted young ladies who resided in the charming suburb of Paddington-green. |